Baua Electric

JULY 23, 2024

GM calls the electric SUV a “game changer” with over 300 miles range, a tech-loaded interior, and an affordable starting price. GM claims the Equinox is the “most affordable” EV with over 315 miles range. When it arrives in 2025, GM claims it will be the most affordable EV on the market.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ford is reportedly considering building a new battery manufacturing plant to produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. From the details released in Bloomberg’s story, sources claim that the new facility, either coming to Michigan or Virginia, would produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Additionally, Ford has just announced a ‘resizing’ in plans to build a $3.5 billion battery plant in Marshall, Michigan, citing a need to reevaluate how best to ‘competitively run the plant.’ The United Auto Workers strike in the U.S. is already affecting the industry, even though it has now been resolved.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Ford is working with platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Pivotal to build a software platform supporting FordPass, announced at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) ( earlier post ), that will enable the company to innovate rapidly and to iterate on new applications and mobility solutions for consumers.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2022

He visited a Ford auto manufacturing plant in his home state of Michigan, watched the printing presses roll at the Detroit Free Press plant, and listened on his crystal radio receiver to the broadcast of Charles Lindbergh ’s transatlantic flight in 1927. As his fascination with different engineering fields grew, he set out to explore them.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After the state of Michigan pledged in 2021 to complete a wireless charging road by this year , Israeli startup Electreon has finished installing the EV charging road, according to a press release shared by the company last week. “We million investment from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Today, thanks to Gov.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Instead, Lucid leaders see a bright future in cars that aim for maximum efficiency — rather than range per se — via smaller, more-affordable batteries. allowing automakers to theoretically build many more cars from a finite supply. billion to build a network of 500,000 EV chargers by 2030. Infrastructure Law is providing $7.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. 2,955,360 (jointly funded).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Magnesium is one of the lightest structural metals available and can reduce the weight of vehicle components by more than 50%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

In collaboration with the Department of Defense, the newest manufacturing institute will focus on building US leadership in smart collaborative robotics, where advanced robots work alongside humans seamlessly, safely, and intuitively to do the heavy lifting on an assembly line or handle with precision, intricate or dangerous tasks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

Smart Mobility builds upon Ford’s Blueprint for Mobility ( earlier post ). Projects include: Big Data Drive, Dearborn, Michigan. This experiment studies a driver’s behavior over time in order to build a more personalized mobility profile. The approach helps consumers who can’t afford a car but want the benefits of owning one.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 9, 2024

From MSNBC : The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker has turned its fleet business, which includes sales to commercial, government and rental customers, into an earnings powerhouse. Like most American automakers, Ford knows how to build full-size trucks. It’s scummy. GM has conversely claimed it sold the most fleet vehicles in 2023.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 21, 2024

Crucially, with EVs still priced above the market average and interest rates high, the Equinox EV is GM’s most affordable plug-in model. If this proves to be real, that’s a cost under $30,000 after the point-of-sale rebate—assuming the entry-level model is widely available, and not just a single loss-leader vehicle to lure in shoppers.

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EV Match

JUNE 2, 2021

We at EVmatch envision a distributed, equitable, and carbon-free energy economy that is not only available for those with money and resources, but for everyone. It is exciting to see the variety and affordability of electric vehicles growing at the rate that they are, but we know it’s not enough. Clean Energy in Irving Park.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

Meanwhile, Congress prepped the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards to force manufacturers to build more efficient vehicles. Though the trend was already to build a bigger model. Even Ford’s Maverick is substantially larger than the original Ranger was and it’s just about the smallest pickup currently available.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 21, 2024

Crucially, with EVs still priced above the market average and interest rates high, the Equinox EV is GM’s most affordable plug-in model. If this proves to be real, that’s a cost under $30,000 after the point-of-sale rebate—assuming the entry-level model is widely available, and not just a single loss-leader vehicle to lure in shoppers.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 23, 2021

The investment in lithium mining and battery production will be necessary to ensure EVs are readily available around the world. largely comes from Tesla-Panasonic’s Gigafactory 1 in California, LG Chem’s Michigan plant supplying GM, and AESC Envision’s factory in Tennessee. Key efforts for the adoption of electric vehicles.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. So much care was lavished on MAXC’s hardware and software that it held the all-time record for continuous availability as a node on the ARPAnet. And MAXC gave PARC experience in building computers that would later stand the center in good stead. Goldman tells it differently.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Building on more than a decade of autonomous vehicle research and development, Ford’s first fully autonomous vehicle will be an SAE-rated level 4-capable vehicle without a steering wheel or gas and brake pedals. The aim is to quickly mass-produce a more affordable automotive LiDAR sensor. —Mark Fields, Ford president and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In July, the DOE announced that ARPA-E had received approximately 3,500 submissions for the approximately $150 million available as part of the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000065) released 27 April 2009. Building Efficiency (3 projects). Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. Earlier post.)

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Charged EVs

MAY 19, 2021

Chevy already previewed an all-electric compact crossover and a pickup truck, and announced in April that it would build an all-electric Silverado with an estimated 400 miles of rated range at its Factory Zero EV assembly plant in Detroit. GM has roughly doubled production capacity for the Bolt line at its assembly plant in Orion, Michigan.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades?

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As University of Michigan professor emeritus and student of system-human interactions John Leslie King observes “People find ways to use systems for their own benefit not anticipated by designers and developers. If California cannot afford it, can the other 17 states that have pledged to follow California’s EV lead afford it, either?

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Hydrogen refueling has become quicker when and where it’s available; fuel-cell modules have become quieter and unobtrusive; packaging keeps improving; and drivability has improved by leaps and bounds. Honda noted that this is no automated assembly line; it takes 20 days to build each FCEV.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, until mainstream public confidence reaches the point where the perceived combination of risks of a battery electric vehicle purchase (range, affordability, reliability and behavioral changes) match that of an ICE vehicle, then EV purchases are going to be the exception rather than the norm. How much range is enough?

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From Automotive News : The dealerships cover a broad swath of car brands sold in states including California, Michigan, Colorado and New York. They argue customers are not ready to switch to fully electric vehicles because of unresolved challenges such as access to reliable charging networks, vehicle affordability and range anxiety.

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APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The table and this introduction are also available in multiple foreign languages which occasionally have a translation "lag time" (follow links at bottom of home page).

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 31, 2024

The documents reportedly revealed that four Chinese firms "will be intimately involved" in the development, construction, servicing, and information technology processes for the EV battery factory Ford is building in Marshall, Michigan. trade restrictions. "To

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The tax credits will now be available only for sedans priced at $55,000 or less, and for pickups, vans or SUVs at $80,000 or less. Marketing gurus tell us that luxury buyers don’t tend to be very price-sensitive—if you can afford an $80,000 car, a few thousand bucks one way or the other is unlikely to affect your purchase decision.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve been available 24/7 to bargain a deal that recognizes our members’ sacrifices and contributions to these record profits. That’s why, last week, our brave union family at Wentzville Assembly, Toledo Assembly, and final assembly and paint departments at Michigan Assembly were called on to Stand Up and go out on strike.

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